Oil on canvas, Nude in the studio by Gaston Hoffmann
Oil on canvas, Nude in the studio by Gaston Hoffmann
9.000,00 €
HOFFMANN Gaston
Born on January 12, 1883 in Paris Died in Metz in 1977
Originally from Lorraine by his mother, he lived in Metz and studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1902, where he was a student of Léon Bonnat and Luc-Olivier Merson; at the Académie Julian of Jules Lefebvre (for engraving) and T. Robert-Fleury, at the Beaux-Arts in Nancy, he was a student of Jules Larcher.
The painting was presented at the Salon des Artistes Français in 1906.
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| Dimensions | 20 × 122.5 × 95 cm |
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Gaston Hoffmann exhibited regularly at the Salon des artistes français from 1905, as well as at the Salon des comiques.
In 1918, G. Hoffmann collaborates with Charles Schneider, a friend he met at the Beaux-Arts, whose glass factory in Epinay-sur-Seine takes off with the School of Nancy and is very successful in the years 1925.
In 1922-1923, G. Hoffmann worked for the Manufacture de Sèvre. The same year, he realized the poster of the film Vidocq.
In 1925, the artist decorated the murals of the Kerhulu restaurant in Quebec City: La Faim et la Soif. These works are now preserved at the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, thanks to a gift from Jean Piché in 1983.
He was a professor of drawing at the City of Paris.
He taught drawing and decorative composition at the École des Beaux-Arts de Québec from 1924 to 1926.
In 1946, the painter decorated the Municipal Council room of the Noyon City Hall, representing the great periods of the city's history.
